Word: markets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidates, convoys of black Mercedes limousines and free carnations for ladies in Stuttgart. But there was also something unusual in the air as West Germany prepared to go to the polls this Sunday, in the sixth general election since the Federal Republic was founded 20 years ago. Halls and market places were filled to overflowing for every major candidate. Women and young people turned up at political rallies in unprecedented numbers. Questions put to the candidates showed deep understanding of complex issues...
...failure was hardly the fault of BOAC's U.S. marketing manager Eric Engledew, 49, a happily married father of two who conceived the idea. His strategy was simple. By tapping the lucrative American singles market, capitalizing on the now well-established computer dating craze in the U.S., and wrapping it all up into a package tour of a foreign country where the girls all speak English, BOAC could earn a bigger slice of the transatlantic air trade it has to share with American carriers...
...obvious one is money. In 1956, My Fair Lady was put on for $400,000; last May Dear World lost its backers upwards of $750,000. The theater's angels, who customarily take their temperatures with a Dow-Jones thermometer, feel distinctly chilly after a sustained stock-market decline. The result is that while 33 new plays and 45 musicals have been announced for the season, only seven plays and four musicals are definitely scheduled to open between now and Jan. 1. Indeed, this may be the year of permanent transition to heavy off-Broadway production, which rose from...
...hashish ("hash"), taking mescaline, peyote, psilocybin, LSD ("acid"), using barbiturates and sedatives ("goofers," "downers," "red devils," "red birds," "pheenies," "green dragons," "yellow jackets," "tooies"), swallowing or injecting amphetamine stimulants ("crystal," "crank," "meth," "bennies," "dexies," "Christmas trees," "speed"). The prices of their mind excursions flutuate almost daily with the black market where kids must make their purchases. Depending on location, a dose of LSD or enough Methedrine for one injection costs around $3, while one Dexedrine pill can be bought for only 100. The marijuana contained in one "joint" or cigarette is worth around...
...housing will be financed under the Section 236 program of the Federal government, which subsidizes such construction by paying to the developer, the difference between market interest rates and one per cent interest. "It's the only program right now that's effective in producing low-income housing," one of those who planned the project said yesterday...